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These are the most successful and richest people in the world. They have used the systems of capitalism to generate unimaginable wealth and can literally live anywhere. You wanna live on an oil rig in the middle of the ocean, Peter, be my guest.

So I will never understand why Thiel insists everyone else has to live in his fucked up version of reality. These government and currency systems gave Thiel all the freedom he will ever have, but now he's trying to destroy them. He and all the PayPal Mafia are mad men.

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I watched the Pee Wee Herman as Himself doc for the second time today because as my childhood hero and tween-age crush, it needed a second visit. Somehow, HBO plunked "Mountainhead " on right after. It's a flick about 4 tech-bros riding out a world crisis at one of their compounds atop a hill. Holy shit. Two films could not have been more different.

Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee) offers kindness, compassion, empathy, mistrust, humor, kindness, compassion and empathy again, in great doses. He should never have been made a pariah or made to feel guilty about who he was. He entertained the fuck outta me and still does, posthumously. I was slaphappy with nostalgia.

Then, 'Mountainhead,' came on. It was like watching a handful of AI driven, app monkeys and decimal period moving manboys figure out how to eat their own in a time of crisis. Jesse Armstrong ( Succession writer) got it right. 3/4 of these guys were Musks and Thiels and amalgams of all the wrong in that broligarch milieu.

I am still reeling over this double feature and kind of wanna take a Silkwood shower after sitting through the second half. Oof.

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